Ok, how about this for an idea. We take it in turns to post a favourite (British spelling) comic cover every day. This went really well on the comic fan website that I used to frequent. What we tried to do was find a theme or subject and follow that, until we all got bored with that theme. I'd like to propose a theme of letters of the alphabet. So, for the remainder of October (only 5 days) and all of November, we post comic cover pictures associated with the letter "A". Then in December, we post covers pertaining to the letter "B". The association to the letter can be as tenuous as you want it to be. For example I could post a cover from "Adventure Comics" or "Amazing Spider Man". However Spider Man covers can also be posted when we're on the letter "S". Adventure Comic covers could also be posted when we're on the letter "L" if they depict the Legion of Super Heroes. So, no real hard, fast rules - in fact the cleverer the interpretation of the letter, the better, as far as I'm concerned.
And it's not written in stone that we have to post a cover every day. There may be some days when no cover gets posted. There's nothing wrong with this, it just demonstrates that we all have lives to lead.
If everyone's in agreement I'd like to kick this off with one of my favourite Action Comic covers, from January 1967. Curt Swan really excelled himself here.
Discussion and voting on future monthly themes takes place on the "Nominations, Themes and Statistics for A Cover A Day" thread. Click here to view the thread.
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The original Freedom Train was a travelling museum between 1947-1949 that made a lot of stops celebrating America both within the 48 contigous states and many comic book stories. There was another for the Bicentennial, but not one for the 250th anniversary that I've heard of. (Images courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Jimmy Olsen #31 and Lois Lane #31
In the Supergirl TV series Jimmy Olson is protrayed as a black guy how interesting.
Today is the anniversary of the start of the Battle of Brtain.
Does this count as a patriotic cover? I think it counts.
Uncle Sam was ripped during the Golden Age!
The trip of a lifetime for the kid in all of us. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Black Cat #31. Going forward, the title character is not on the covers. This is the last Black Cat I'll post.
I haven't read this Canadian take on superheroes, but there are patriots of a few stripes in the assembly:
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